x, 614 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Introduction / James Buchanan, Peter Hershock -- Technology, History, and the Contested Role of Cultural Difference -- Modern Technologies and Perspectives of Civilization / Vyacheslav Stiopin -- Technology, Nature, and the Alleged Duty of Human Survival / Frank W. Derringh -- Knowledge, Science, and Technology and the West-East Transition / Susantha Goonatilake -- Islam and the Challenge of Modernity: Divergence of Worldviews / Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas -- Biotechnologies -- Globalizing the Concepts of Bioethics -- Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Biotechnology: The Impact of Genetic Technologies / Henk A. M. J. Ten Have -- Methodological Considerations in the Development of a Global Bioethic / George Khushf -- Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach / Robert Cummings Neville -- Japan: A National Case Study -- Buddhist, Shinto, and Modern Japanese Views of Medicine and Terminal Care / Carl Becker -- Philosophy and Fear: Hans Jonas and the Japanese Debate about the Ethics of Organ Transplantation / William R. Lafleur -- Buddhism: A Cultural Case Study -- Remaking the World or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology / David R. Loy -- Toward a Broader Notion of Causation (and Technology) / Peimin Ni -- Technology, Authority, and Dissent -- How to Distinguish Friends from Enemies: Human Rights Rhetoric and Western Mass Media / Hans-Georg Moller -- Cultural Integrity, Globalization, and Technical Change: Further Thoughts on GMOs in the Food Supply / Paul B. Thompson -- Women Carrying Water: Homeplace, Technology, and Transformation / Yoko Arisaka -- Radical Catholicism, Popular Resistance, and Material Culture in El Salvador / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Environmental Justice, Supererogation, and Virtue Ethics: The Case of Chernobyl / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- Ghandian Perspectives -- Gandhi's Viable Vision of Relating Technology and Religion / Kuruvilla Pandikattu, S.J. -- Supreme Danger and Saving Power: Toward a Gandhian Response to Heidegger's Analysis of Technology / Vasanthi Srinivasan -- Food Technologies and Transgenic Species -- From Agriculture to Agribusiness: Transgenic Organisms in the New Millennium / Ramon Sentmarti -- Cultural Values and Diversity of Agro-biodiversity for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation / Monica Opole -- How Wholesome Is That Soup? or, The Political Contents of the Refrigerator / Francesca Bray -- Technology and the Home -- Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings / Arindam Chakrabarti -- Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering / David B. Wong -- Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism / Joel J. Kupperman -- Technology and the Aesthetics of Embodiment -- Art and Technology: The Touch of the Human / Joseph Margolis -- Technical Arts and Reality: Status of the Referent in Photography and Cinema / Helen Petrovsky -- Healing: The Body as Site of Medical and Religious Interaction / Thomas P. Kasulis -- Sensory Dimensions in Intercultural Perspective and the Problem of Modern Media and Technology / Rolf Elberfeld -- Technology, Communication, and Education -- Thinking, Making, and Using: Technology and the Realization of Human Values / Mary Tiles -- Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism / Charles Ess -- Online Education and the Choices of Modernity / Andrew Feenberg -- The Fate of Creative Solitudes in the Age of Information Technology / David Farrell Krell -- The Emergence of Pure Consciousness: The Theater of Virtual Selves in the Age of the Internet / H. Jiuan Heng -- Critical Afterword -- Critical Literacies: Technology and Cultural Values (Comparative Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology in Conversation) / James P. Buchanan -- Turning Away from Technotopia: Critical Precedents for Refusing the Colonization of Consciousness / Peter D. Hershock

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